This course introduces the novice student to the care of the perioperative patient to include teaching, preoperative preparation, legal requirements of informed consent, surgical asepsis, post-anesthesia recover, and discharge instruction to patient/family. Health care issues of body systems which can be treated via surgical intervention, as well as postoperative complications, and the impact of acute and chronic health crisis are introduced. This clinical nursing course continues to advance nursing competency and critical thinking within the framework of the nursing process. The student must successfully complete this course with a final grade of C+ to progress to the next clinical course in the nursing curriculum. Campus lectures and nursing skills laboratories will be required and can be assigned during day, evening and/or weekend hours. Internet assignments are required in the course. Liability insurance, lab fee, testing feel and course fee are included in the students tuition. Prerequisites: NURS 1200, NURS 1300, and NURS 1400. Prerequisites or Corequisites: BIOL 1220 or BIOL 2030 with a grade of C or higher. Corequisites: NURS 1650 and NURS 1675. Lab fee. Course fee.
Semester Offered
Spring